Following the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 Special edition—a foldable smartphone that puts a premium on thin design—Samsung is exploring a Galaxy S25 Slim for release in 2025.
The details come from South Korea’s ET news, which reports that a slim version of the Galaxy S25 could be released in a limited number of territories to gauge market response ahead of a full introduction with the Galaxy S26.
That suggests that the three core Galaxy S models will remain the three models that will take to the stage at any Galaxy Unpacked event early in 2025. Samsung has traditionally held a Galaxy Unpacked launch event at the start of each calendar year. 2024’s first edition took place in mid-January, and there are no indications that the company is changing these plans for 2025.
There’s an intriguing possibility that Samsung will hold back the S25 Slim and launch it in the months after the main line. This would echo the Galaxy Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Fold 6 Slim schedule. The latter saw the regular Z Fold 6 launch in July 2024, opening up the smartphone product launch cycle of the back half of 2024 and offering Samsung an early lead. Naturally, the big hitters, such as the Google Pixel and Apple iPhone followed and took much of the headlines. Yet the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold Slim gave the company a chance to hit back in the PR stakes—at least in South Korea, as the handset is on a limited release.
Samsung could pull a similar trick with the Galaxy S25 family, namely release the three expected handsets—the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra—in mid-January and hold back the presumptively named S25 Slim for a few months.
And what’s launched in a few months after January 2025? Apple’s iPhone SE and Google’s Pixel 9a. Just as it has with the Galaxy Z Fold 6 family, Samsung can bracket the competing handsets and be the first and the last of the Big Three manufacturers in the first half of 2025.
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